17/02/2013 | Latin America

Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sánchez, a former Buenos Aires Herald columnist, checked in without incident at Havana's international airport on Sunday on her way to Brazil, the first stop on an 80-day-tour of a dozen countries.

15/05/2014 | Latin America

21/05/2014 | Latin America

Cuban opposition blogger Yoani Sánchez launched today the country’s first independent media in over half a century. Her digital newspaper “14ymedio" aims to break up the state media monopoly and “accompany the needed transition to occur in our country,” as she explained.

08/11/2011 | Latin America

Social media moved into a new realm in technologically backward Cuba when Cuban President Raúl Castro's controversial daughter Mariela began tweeting and quickly got into the Twitter equivalent of a shouting match with dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez.

05/10/2012 | Latin America

Prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, a Buenos Aires Herald contributor, has been arrested along with her husband Reinaldo Escobar, in the city of Bayamo, Cuba, a website with close ties to Cuban government reported today.